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16 years ago

Quartus Compilation took 4 hrs

Hi all,

I am compiling a sample AES program from the book Design Recipes for FPGAs by Peter Wilson.

However, it took four hours to compile the two files. Here's the message from Quartus II:

Info: Started Full Compilation at Mon Oct 26 16:11:22 2009 Malay Peninsula Standard Time

Info: Ended Full Compilation at Mon Oct 26 20:27:12 2009 Malay Peninsula Standard Time

The example given use a package approach with a suite of VHDL functions rather than the structural approach.

Can any one suggest a faster setting for compilation?

Cheers,

Dennis

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    Altera_Forum
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    16 years ago

    you didn't say anything about your target FPGA and the pc you run Quartus. Does this pc have enough memory or is it swaping ? also you didn't mention how you have setup your project.

    What Quartus Version do you have ?

    Maybe the meneu Tools -> Advisors -> Compilation Time Advisors may help you
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    Altera_Forum
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    16 years ago

    I am running Quartus 9.0 sp2 on a WinXP SP3 with Core 2 Dual Processor with 4GB Ram.

    Will take a look at the Compilation Time Advisors and feedback later.

    Thanks.
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    16 years ago

    Open You Quartus Project

    Menue Assignments -> Settings

    Compilation Process Settings

    choose Parallel compilation . Use all available processors

    enable Use smart compilation

    Fitter Settings

    Set fitter effort to Auto Fit

    your system should be fast enough a Cyclone II EP2C70 design with ~70% usage is compiled here on a E8500 cpu within 50 minutes.

    Is your project stored localy or via network ?